LBL Archives and Records Office
Nuclear Testing and Fallout Records Survey
1. NARA Accession Number

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2. LBL Accession Number

19-14-35

3. Location
5475E
4. Division/Department or Research Group
RESEARCH MEDICINE & RADIATION BIOPHYSICS.
Joseph G. Hamilton.

5. Description of Records
a. Record Title

Joseph G. Hamilton:

Project 484 Reports.

(Technical Administrative Files)

b. Record Media
TEX

c. Dates
1946 - 1948
d. Size of Records -

Cubic Feetee

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e. Arrangement
No particular arrangement. -

f. Security Classification
Declassified 1974.

g. Creating Individual or Organizational Unit
Joseph G. Hamilton, Crocker Laboratory director.

h. Series Description
(Photocopied) reports and correspondence pertaining to AEC Project 48A

on the use of fission products as radioactive poisons in warfare and

potential sources of radiation injury from an atomic bomb.

Dr. Hamilton's

correspondents were Dr. Ernest 0. Lawrence, The Radiation Laboratory
director, and Col. Kenneth D. Nichols, head of the Armed Forces Special
Weapons Project.
Dr. Hamilton was director of Metabolic Studies of
Fission Products and Transuranic Elements, LBL.
Original documents were transferred to Dr. Patricia Durbin-Heavey.

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